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SINGAPORE – A Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) officer allegedly assaulted a man multiple times to extort a confession involving some drugs found in the latter’s possession.

Vengedesh Raj Nainar Nagarajan, 32, was charged in court last Friday (Oct 4) with three counts of voluntarily causing hurt to extort a confession.

If convicted of the offence, he can be jailed for up to seven years and fined or caned for each charge.

He is accused of assaulting the man in a toilet at the Woodlands Checkpoint CNB Block B office on the third storey between 5.58am and 9.30am on Jan 2, 2017.

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SINGAPORE – The family of the two-year-old girl who was allegedly killed by her parents – and whose remains were found in a pot in a Chin Swee Road flat – had told social workers and staff from government agencies that she was being looked after by relatives.

Mr Desmond Lee, Minister for Social and Family Development, said in a parliamentary reply released on Monday night (Oct 7): “Based on what the family members had said at that time, and the interactions that the family had with the different agencies, the officers and social workers did not suspect that the child had gone missing or had come to any harm.

“A two-year-old child will generally have no interaction, on a regular basis, with agencies.”

Mr Lee said that more details of the case will be given in court, adding that what the family members said and did in their interactions with each of the different groups over the years is relevant to ongoing investigations and criminal proceedings. Hence, he cannot go into specific details.

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Miss Mohanaprabha, a Miss Universe Singapore (MUS) 2018 finalist, is giving the beauty pageant another shot.

The 24-year-old biomedical science student at PSB Academy, who cracked the Top 5 last year, has joined MUS again.

She told The New Paper: “I felt I didn’t give my 100 per cent last year because I was juggling school and the competition.

“I will be graduating at the end of this year and I wanted to redeem myself and give it a second try.”

She was speaking at a press conference last week at rooftop bar and grill destination Vue to unveil the Top 10 finalists. The MUS finals take place on Oct 17.

CONFIDENCE

Miss Mohana, who was also a finalist in The New Paper New Face 2017, said: “I’ve learnt a lot in terms of increasing my confidence and learning to better present myself.

“I hope to continue my career in the modelling industry and I believe these are skills which will help me in the long run.”

Miss Mohana is working on her confidence, which is something she has always struggled with.

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Thinking they were in a relationship, she allowed him to take photos and videos of her naked. She even sent him pictures of her bare breasts at his request and had sex with him several times.

Unknown to her, he already had a girlfriend. After he had an argument with his then-girlfriend over her, he uploaded the victim’s nude photos onto social media platform Tumblr, telling her, “Good luck with your dignity” and “I’m destroying you again”.

Yesterday, the man, 26, was jailed for 10 weeks after he pleaded guilty to one count of criminal intimidation and one count of transmitting obscene pictures via electronic means. A third charge of possessing obscene films was taken into consideration during sentencing.

None of the parties can be named due to a gag order imposed by the court.

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In France, the employer of a married engineer who died while having sex with a stranger during a business trip was found liable to pay his family compensation.

Last month, an appeals court in Paris upheld a decision by the state health insurance provider that his death was a workplace accident.

In Singapore, the families of workers who might end up in a similar situation are unlikely to get compensation under labour laws here, say legal and insurance experts.

They noted the Work Injury Compensation Act (Wica) does not define what constitutes a “work-related accident”.

So it would be left to the courts, which are more likely to rule for the employer because an accident from a sexual act done outside the employee’s professional duties cannot be deemed to have been “in the course of duty”.

However, the courts could also rule differently depending on the circumstances of each case and what is considered to be “work-related”.

Lawyer Gloria James-Civetta told The New Paper: “Singapore law does not limit claim to during office hours… (but it) requires the injury to have been sustained during the ‘course of employment’.”

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SINGAPORE – The death of a 15-day-old baby boy could have been caused by “unintentional suffocation” after his mother nodded off while breastfeeding him in September last year.

She woke up about 1½ hours later and found the infant unresponsive with vomit residue on his cheeks.

Baby Nor Eilshan Emran Muhammad Nor Aszroy was pronounced dead in hospital about two hours later at around 5am on Sept 1 last year.

In an inquiry last week into his death, State Coroner Kamala Ponnampalam said there was no basis to suspect foul play in this case and added that his death was likely to have been the result of “unintentional suffocation”.

As the medical cause of Nor Eilshan’s death is unascertained, she said: “I am constrained to record an open verdict.”

The mother’s name was not revealed in court documents seen by The Straits Times.

The baby was born at KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital (KKH) on Aug 17 last year and a routine screening conducted that day revealed no abnormalities.

While still in hospital, the mother declined the nurses’ offer to teach her how to breastfeed.

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